From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: Adding a smaller drive Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:52:40 +0100 Message-ID: <4A47F438.4070905@anonymous.org.uk> References: <20090628212227029.KYDP20969@cdptpa-omta01.mail.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090628212227029.KYDP20969@cdptpa-omta01.mail.rr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: lrhorer@satx.rr.com Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 28/06/2009 22:22, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > I'm not confidant of that presumption. I would not be surprised in > the least if some manufacturer produced a 1T drive with an actual 999.8G If they did that, they'd be lying in describing it as a 1TB drive. I wish they'd be more honest in the first place and sell them as 931GiB drives, or make real 1TiB drives, but the marketing literature does at least explain their definition of TB, GB etc. Cheers, John.